Hi many people have problems with installing nvidia drivers in lmde and it breaks the os, you may need to instal the drivers outside x etc. well to solve this Edit: if you have run this before i got it wrong please follow it again to fix and install. Editfor a rolling release setup yo can try thisclick here the manual click here see manual for ati and other drivers

it seemed to go ok

This is for nvidia graphics. Note: read the above links for how-to for other cards First: Add yourself to the video group

Thanks so much. Your instructions are very clear and I finally succeeded installing the nvidia driver. I have already updated to up4 so can't help you there but I would like to note that I had a problem with gnome 3 crashing on reboot. I had to log in in fallback mode. I tried starting glxgears in a terminal and it ran but with this error. NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied). Opening users and groups and adding myself to the video group solved the problem.

anthro_a wrote:Thanks so much. Your instructions are very clear and I finally succeeded installing the nvidia driver. I have already updated to up4 so can't help you there but I would like to note that I had a problem with gnome 3 crashing on reboot. I had to log in in fallback mode. I tried starting glxgears in a terminal and it ran but with this error. NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidiactl (Permission denied). Opening users and groups and adding myself to the video group solved the problem.

Thanks allot for the encouragement and the great final step that is needed i have added it to the original post.

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